Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-01-27
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

JAN. 19-Senate-No business transacted.
House-Vote reconsidered by which Green's
Sunday theater bill WAS passed.
Petitions: From nearly half the counties in
the State for the passage of the Washburn
local option bill.
Bills introduced: Providing that husband
shall not take the management of an estate
out of the hands of a woman who is execu
trix; to prevent change of venue in case OF
wild cat insurance companies; cases to be
brought against Bohemian oats companies
in any county where the action arises; for
publication of record of unclaimed deposits
in hanks and fer thr distribution of the same;
for the better protection of homesteads; re-
quiring corporations to pay employees weekly
after July l; authorizing the arrest of girls
from 9 to 10 years of age for crime and pro-
viding for their admission to the Girls In
dustrial home; for the transfer of guardian
settlements from one county to another.
JAN 19-Senate-Bill passed: Establi-hing
q medical board of examiners.
Bills introduced: Limiting the discretion
of defendants when arrested on the charge OF
cruelty to animals.
Senate joint resolution adopted relative To
the celebration of the anniversary of the get
tlement of Marietta; resolution offered con-
demning the action of the pensions congress
ional committee in refusing to recommend 9
bill for the pension of Mrs Gen Logan and
Mrs Frank P Blair.
House--New rules adopted.
JAN. 20-Senate-Bills introduced: State
school examiners to grant certificates under
certain circumstances; eXempting personal
earnings of debtor for three months; for pros
ecutions under the pharmacy law; incorpora~
ted companies to change business by vote
of stockholders.
Bills passed: Senate bill authorizing Guern
sey county to build free turnpikes; Senate
bill increasing OF military companies in state
to 100; Senate bills (2) Muskihgum county to
build an ermory.
House-Bills passed: House bill preventing
persons from unlswfully wearing the Grand
Army badge.
Bills introduced: Reducing the fees of
county officers from 25 to 30 per cent; for the
arrest of insane persons; requiring township
trustees to pay all local bounties promised;
giving the sheriffs power to appoint county
officers instead of the judges; giving justices
final jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases; Civ
ing cities power to condemn property for
cemetery purposes; amending the law in re-
gard to individual liability of stockholders;
regulating the price of natural gas.
Jan. 21-Senate-Bills passed: II B maxi
ing appropriations for the common schools.
Bills introduced: Refunding the Dow law
penalty; for vacation of county roads.
House Bills passed. s b extending me
chanics' lieD clause to oil and gas companies;
81 B, women to become members and officers
of incorporated gift companies; Il B giving
the Governor power to appoint and remove
members of board of public affairs, CiDcinna
ii; 81 to distribute the Roster of Ohio to
soldiers.
Bills introduced: Giving sheriffs So per
day for taking boys to Reform farm; for the
settlement of guardian estates; enlargiug du :
ties state board charities.
JAN. 22-Senate-Bi introduced: For
the better collection Of taxes on personal
property; requiring road engines to stop on
meeting teams; allowing, on consent in wri>
ting, for pleas in abatement to be heard in
absence of defendants; giving justices Of the
peace jurisdiction in cases brought by the
food and dairy commissioners.
House--Bills introduced: To allow gar
nishee process upon partnership; relating to
the payment of judges and clerks of election;
reducing the number of county school exam
nations.
Resolution offered: Condemning the sp-
pointment OF eX-rebels to Office and the vet
of pension bills.
JAN. 24-Senate-Bills introduced: Near
thur to issue bonds; exempting three months
wages of married men; giving defendants in
capital cases % challenges; amending section
8 of the Dow law; for the publication of vol
ume of the geological survey. Bill passed:
Psulding county to refund court house bonds.
House-Bills passed: Fl B relative to Il Q
abolishment of the official SEAL Il B, Noble
county to pay certain compensation ont of
the special road fund; 81 B for sheriff g res
idence and to complete the court house of
Belmont county. Bills introduced: AmeDd>
ing the tax collection laws making them ap>
plicable 10 all counties; making the owner of
dog responsible for the sheep it kills.